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- Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
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- Arnold Raymond Cream (January 31, 1914 - February 25, 1994), better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He ...9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2022
- James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- Monzón retired from boxing as a champion at the top of his game. ... on November 7, 1970, Monzon shocked the boxing world. Monzón applied pressure ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 06:07, 3 August 2022
- performer whose ring antics entertained boxing audiences during the Great ... successful nightclub act. He also refereed boxing and wrestling matches. Baer ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
- a count of ten. Liston was known by the boxing community as one of the most ... older than originally thought during his boxing career. Many believe he was ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide political events because of their racial and international importance. ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- and is the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to never record a ... Marciano didn't take up the sport of boxing until after 1943, when he ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- fight with Georges Carpentier generated boxing's first million-dollar ... than he handled lighter, quicker ones. Boxing experts Charley Rose, Nat ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- by knock out or TKO. As a holder of many boxing records, Robinson was the ... himself the greatest heavyweight in boxing history, that he would rank ...21 KB (3,404 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), better known in the boxing world as Joe Louis, and nicknamed the Brown Bomber, is regarded ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 2024
- fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ... fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- Zhāng Kǒngzhāo, Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 ... the Shaolin Monastery as the place Chinese boxing originated. ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- renowned the world over both for his boxing and his political activism ... reported the fact to a local policeman and boxing trainer, Joe Martin. Martin ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- Nursing a broken nose, King decided to quit boxing and focus on his comedy career. King began working as a doorman at the popular nightclub Leon and ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- actively endorsed rising sports such as boxing and horse racing and was ... University. He was also an amateur boxing champion in his youth, which ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- and weighing over 250 pounds, he took up boxing. He showed considerable talent ... At the boxing gym, Dixon was met by fellow singer Leonard "Baby ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- *Smith, Robert W. Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods. Tokyo: Kodansha ... Bagua quan xue = A Study of Eight Trigrams Boxing. Pinole, CA: Smiling Tiger ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single ...9 KB (1,485 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- On December 26, 2004, the massive Boxing Day Tsunami, caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that occurred a thousand miles away off the ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- in Kowloon, where he represented their boxing team in inter-school events. ... of Wing Chun, with elements of Western boxing and fencing. Lee taught friends ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- in track and field events, and was the heavy-weight boxing champion at Cornell in 1893. After graduating from Cornell, he had a brief legal career in ...11 KB (1,567 words) - 09:23, 24 November 2022
- several different sports, including boxing, fencing, horse-riding, rugby, and rowing. He believed that sport was essential for the development ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- The sports of wrestling, throwing, boxing, and racing were all wrote ... While Boxing was still not accepted as a sport because of its danger ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- of Tai Chi. Developed by Chinese Olympic boxing coach Bai Rong, taiji bailong ball is known as Rythmball in North America. Rhythmball, [http://www ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- hostess for the Mayor of New York. She attended boxing matches, baseball games and other public events, dressed in what became her signature garb: a ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- *Boxing (Discontinued) *Men's Cross Country *Women's Cross Country *Fencing *Field Hockey *Football The NCAA does not sponsor a championship ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- boxer. Eventually he won the Amateur Lightweight Boxing Championship of California, winning 22 of 25 bouts. His trademark broken nose resulted from ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- sport in which no professionals compete is boxing; and in men's football ... elimination tournament (most notably boxing), a third place might not ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American, entertainment writer and television host, best known as the ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- coaches thought he was too little. So he turned to boxing and wrestling, consistently beating boys bigger than him. He never lost a match. A girl at ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- in sales and chaired Cleveland's boxing commission. He was inducted ... April 8, 2024. He chaired Cleveland's boxing commission between 1936 and ...49 KB (6,990 words) - 18:09, 25 April 2024
- challenged the writer to a duel and then a boxing match. Neither challenge ... After Valentino challenged the Tribunes anonymous writer to a boxing ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- preclude other activities, such as fencing and boxing (Fiske 1919, 15). After his graduation in 1873, and two years at sea, he returned to the Academy ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- royal" with other blacks in a boxing ring. After brutally winning the battle royal, injured and bleeding, the narrator is finally given ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- Upon leaving school, Dino began boxing, claiming to be an "amateur ... opportunities for him in gambling than in boxing. So, he began working in ...24 KB (3,934 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:37, 22 June 2022
- In high school, Nagurski took up wrestling and boxing. In 1926 Nagurski entered the University of Minnesota. From 1927 through 1929, he starred ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- helping arrange for the broadcast of a heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in July 1921. Up to 300,000 people heard ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- American to win the heavyweight championship in boxing.]] ... contributions to the nation's sports. Boxing was the first sport to accept ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Image wanted Annenberg, Walter Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- all 32 points on a compass rose is called "boxing the compass." 1 point = 1/8 of a right angle = 11.25° = 12.5 gon. *The astronomical ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- To deal with bullies Roosevelt started boxing lessons. Two trips abroad ... Club; and runner-up in the Harvard boxing championship, losing to C ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- * The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York: Nation Books, 2006 ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- grabs on to the back of a female with a "boxing glove" like structure on his front claws, often holding on for months at a time. After the ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
